Yahoo: Remembering The Early Days

As many of you know, Yahoo! will celebrating their 10th anniversary later this week (March 2nd to be precise) and the AP has put together a wonderful timeline with key dates and milestones in Yahoo's history.

I also did a bit of research and found some early posts about Yahoo in the Usenet archive and elsewhere. Enjoy!

+ September 21, 1994
Jerry Yang posts about a directory called Yahoo! to the comp.infosystems.www.misc group.

+ September 26, 1994
Someone on comp.infosystems.www.misc says that Jerry and David should be given a medal of honor and then, "locked in a room and never allowed to get lives."

+ February 1, 1995
An article about Yahoo from the December 1994 Internet Business Journal.

The U.K. Supreme Court has granted permission in part for Google to appeal against a ruling relating to a dispute over the user information through cookies via use of the Apple Safari browser.
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